Bucky (X-Men 2)
X-Men 2
Directed by Bryan Singer
Story by Zak Penn, David Hayter, and Bryan Singer
Screenplay by Michael Dogherty, Dan Harris, and David Hayter
Let me just say that the first 30 minutes of X2 made me giddy with excitement. The opening fight sequence with Nightcrawler was sick awesome! Ray Parks (played toad in X-Men) was resigned to X2 not as Toad, but as the fight choreographer, and I assume he performed some of those great stunts (love that opening).
The story begins after that and goes very smooth. You got blind hatred and predjudice again. Throw in some government intervention, and poof! You have a classic X-Men comic story. Like I said, for the first 30 minutes it was awesome.
Now I know the trailers got you all excited for some super sexy Colossus scenes. Well sorry, don’t get your hopes up ’cause what you saw is all you see. He has one line and they couldn’t even fake a Russian accent. But you know I can overlook that ’cause the attack on the school (shown in the trailer) was great Wolverine (Hugh Jackman). He bares his claws and starts cutting people to pieces. No nonsense, he is a badass anti-hero, see. Well lets not get carried away, there still is that “southern” relationship with Rogue.
After the first 30 minutes, it is more like Wolverine and Storm strolling back and forth down Wolverines’ past. I remember saying, yea Halle Berry as storm sucks so why did they need to put her in so much? It hurts to see Alan Cumming (Nightcrawler) have to actually share scenes with this women.
Well then there’s a little fire and ice that goes back and forth. Then what could have been a great story with Nightcrawler. All that reduced to a Wolverine back story, shi**y Storm scenes, and a set-up for the third movie. Just like the amazing beginning from the first X-Men, it’s just all down hill from there.
Well there is always X3.
Review by Bucky